I would refer you to this, on the problems with XML::Simple: Why is XML::Simple "discouraged"

I would strongly suggest looking at XML::Twig instead - as an easy-to-use XML parser, that _actually_ does XML, and not some nasty hack job. If you do, your code becomes something like this:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::Twig;

my $twig = XML::Twig->new->parsefile('ciao.tmex');

foreach my $entry ( $twig->get_xpath('//Entry') ) {
    print "My terms: ", 
        $entry->get_xpath('./German/Term',0)->text, " - ",
        $entry->get_xpath('./Italian/Term',0)->text, "\n";
}
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You can, if you prefer, also use "first_child" and "children" to navigate the XML:

foreach my $entry ( $twig->root->children('Entry') ) {
   print "My terms: ",
     $entry->first_child('German')->first_child_text('Term'), " - ",
     $entry->first_child('Italian')->first_child_text('Term'), "\n";
}
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